Game 135 Recap: The bats are back in town

After being held scoreless by Baltimore in three straight meetings, the Yankee bats rose from the grave, breaking out for three runs in the first in a 5-2 victory.

It wasn’t Gary Sanchez, Starlin Castro or even Aaron Judge doing the damage; Chase Headley and Austin Romine drove in four of the five runs. The Yankees needed runs in a bad way heading into the most crucial 10-game homestand of the season that will most likely determine their postseason fate. New York entered the day with a 3.1% chance to make it, according to Baseball Prospectus, so they’ll probably need to win all 10 of those.

Michael Pineda made it into the fifth, but didn’t record an out, and Luis Severino came in and left the bases loaded. From there, the bullpen shut the door.